Comments on: When the heat is on…. http://www.prosebeforehos.com/call-me-jesse/08/31/when-the-heat-is-on/ The Pen Is Mightier Than Thy Wench Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:44:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Call Me Jessehttp://www.prosebeforehos.com/call-me-jesse/08/31/when-the-heat-is-on/comment-page-1/#comment-39329 Call Me Jesse Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:46:38 +0000 http://www.prosebeforehos.com/call-me-jesse/08/31/when-the-heat-is-on/#comment-39329 Yes, I believe that every time-tested competition or sport has an essential quality of beauty delineated by its rules. Look back at the artwork of ancient Greeks for evidence. A sport is not a set of records waiting to be smashed up by some cheating barbarians. It is a set of rules to be followed, a ritual to be performed, as have countless individuals and teams before you. Likewise, what is professional entertainment wrestling? A bunch of cheating barbarians, constantly knocking the referee unconscious so their team can use illegal weapons against the one person about to win a match honestly! Well, since the outcome is already predetermined, and all the cheating is actually according to script, where is the competitive advantage gained.... ? Yes, I believe that every time-tested competition or sport has an essential quality of beauty delineated by its rules. Look back at the artwork of ancient Greeks for evidence. A sport is not a set of records waiting to be smashed up by some cheating barbarians. It is a set of rules to be followed, a ritual to be performed, as have countless individuals and teams before you.

Likewise, what is professional entertainment wrestling? A bunch of cheating barbarians, constantly knocking the referee unconscious so their team can use illegal weapons against the one person about to win a match honestly! Well, since the outcome is already predetermined, and all the cheating is actually according to script, where is the competitive advantage gained…. ?

]]> By: thepoetrymanhttp://www.prosebeforehos.com/call-me-jesse/08/31/when-the-heat-is-on/comment-page-1/#comment-38998 thepoetryman Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:46:34 +0000 http://www.prosebeforehos.com/call-me-jesse/08/31/when-the-heat-is-on/#comment-38998 Call Me Jesse, <b>I do believe that the integrity of competition is severely compromised by the use of steroids</b> Absolutely. Anyone that disagrees with the gist of this post are either a professional athlete using steroids or they are a distributor of enhancemnet drugs or they are a fool. Call Me Jesse,
I do believe that the integrity of competition is severely compromised by the use of steroids

Absolutely. Anyone that disagrees with the gist of this post are either a professional athlete using steroids or they are a distributor of enhancemnet drugs or they are a fool.

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